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Word: boloney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms--and then returns to the comically ugly reality. The second parodies a cocktail party: 30 overdressed men and women wiggle about inside an invisible (and nonexistent) wall in the center of the stage, waving long-stemmed glasses, nodding their heads furiously, and shouting in fearful chorus, "Yatata, yatata, boloney, mismosh, rubbish, yatata." The third impressionist scene is "Allegro" itself: the title song, a freudian ballet, and the gyrations of the projected backdrop displaying the tempo of modern life--allegro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allegro | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Corporal George H. Benson: "Everybody else is and we think lots about it. This waiting is killing-no boloney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Just Before the Battle | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...realism and fantasy seldom mix even in the Amazon jungle. Result: the plight of the miniature actors, dodging for their lives behind a huge can of pork & beans, peering up at a towering rooster or laboriously sawing themselves slices of gargantuan boloney, is less frightening than funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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